CVE-2026-79708

Incorrect Authorization in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 19.0 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user with developer permissions to execute a policy test pipeline on projects within their group and access protected CI/CD variables restricted to higher-privileged roles, due to insufficient scope validation.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

8.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 31st percentile

Published

2026-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3873243

Security advisories

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/622477

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry